Herve Gourdel

Daily Mail - 24 Sep 2014
Thousands of Algerian soldiers supported by helicopters are hunting for the ISIS-linked Islamist terrorists who beheaded a French mountaineer in a sickening video released yesterday. Herve Gourdel, 55, was captured by the Islamist group Jund al-Khilifa ...

The New Arab - 31 Aug 2017
Jund al-Khalifa were first reported on when they captured the French tourist, Herve Gourdel, in 2014. The group beheaded Gourdel in an online video the following day, ten days after they pledged allegiance to IS on September 14, 2014. The group's ...

Newsweek - 31 Aug 2017
In September 2014, it captured French hostage Herve Gourdel, beheading him after a deadline for France to halt its participation in coalition airstrikes passed. Algerian security forces have largely kept a lid on the threat of a large-scale jihadist ...

BBC News - 24 Sep 2014
France has confirmed that an Algerian jihadist group linked to Islamic State (IS) militants has beheaded tourist Herve Gourdel, seized on Sunday. Jund al-Khilafa killed Mr Gourdel, 55, after its deadline for France to halt air strikes on IS in Iraq ran ...

BBC News - 15 Jan 2015
The body of French tourist Herve Gourdel, beheaded by jihadists in Algeria in September, has been found south-east of the capital, Algiers. Army sources say the body of the mountain guide, 55, was found based on information from one of two men arrested ...

Newsweek - 13 Oct 2016
French Tourist Herve Gourdel A portrait of mountain guide of Frenchman Herve Gourdel hangs near a French flag outside the town hall in Saint-Martin-Vesubie, September 24, 2014. Algerian forces on Thursday killed the leader of the Algerian ISIS ...

The Independent - 28 Sep 2014Hervé Gourdel knew every danger of the mountains except the one that reared from nowhere and killed him. Against this, even his decades-long experience guiding climbers in countries including Morocco, France, Vietnam, Jordan, and Nepal was of no avail.

BBC News - 23 Dec 2014
Algeria's defence ministry says troops have killed the leader of a jihadist militant group which kidnapped and beheaded French tourist Herve Gourdel. Abdelmalek Gouri and two associates were shot dead late on Monday in the town of Isser, a statement said.

Middle East Eye - 22 Sep 2015
He and a handful of friends dream of naming a viewing point after Herve Gourdel, the French hostage who was abducted and murdered on 23 September last year by Soldiers of the Caliphate (SoC), an Algerian group pledging loyalty to the Islamic State (IS) ...

BBC News - 26 Sep 2014
Algeria is in shock following the beheading of French tourist Herve Gourdel. Security has been stepped up in the capital, Algiers and police are patrolling the city's main thoroughfares and parks. Their presence is worrying the city's residents, who ...

Reuters - 26 Jul 2017
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian police have broken up an Islamic State militant cell led by a former al Qaeda commander convicted in France more than a decade ago for planning an attempted bombing in Strasbourg, a security source said on Wednesday.

VICE News - 23 Dec 2014
The Algerian army said on Tuesday that it had killed the leader of Jund al Khilafah (Soldiers of the Caliphate), an al-Qaeda splinter group which pledged allegiance to the Islamic State before kidnapping and beheading French tourist Hervé Gourdel in ...

RFI - 25 Jan 2015
The Algerian army mobilised some 3,000 troops to search for Gourdel's body and eventually were led to it from a tip of a detained suspected militant, according to officials. Gourdel's body was later found in a booby-trapped grave in the Kabylie region ...

The Guardian - 07 Feb 2017
A memorial to Herve Gourdel, a French mountain guide who was kidnapped and beheaded in Algeria. Photograph: Farouk Batiche/AFP/Getty Images. QUEBEC, CANADA October, 2014. TARGET: One soldier killed and one wounded in vehicle attack

Middle East Eye - 02 Apr 2017
Despite its notorious beginnings – with the kidnapping and killing of French hiker Herve Gourdel in September 2014 and the defection of a number of leading figures from AQIM – IS has not managed to develop its Wilaya al-Djazair (or Algeria province ...

Independent Online - 13 Aug 2017
The state news agency APS said at the weekend that government troops had killed eight suspected militants in the eastern Bouira region while tracking an al-Qaeda splinter group that abducted and decapitated French tourist Herve Gourdel. - Reuters.

The North Africa Post - 27 Jul 2017
In 2014, Algerian special forces killed the leader of the Islamic State local branch. Security sources named him as Abdelmalek Gouri and said he was behind the kidnapping and beheading of French tourist Herve Gourdel in September 2014. Like Aknouche ...